Centre for Aesthetic, Moral and Political Philosophy
This year’s research seminars
Research seminars are held during term-time. Full details are listed on the School events listings.
- 8th Oct: Kal Kalewold
- 22nd Oct: Jeff McMahan (Oxford)
- 30th Oct: Niko Kolodny (Berkely)
- 19th Nov: Derek Matravers (Open)
- 28th Jan: Cécile Fabre (Oxford)
- 11th Feb: Sophie Keeling (UNED, Madrid)
- 25th Feb: PGR Day: Lucy Shanahan and Jon Hawkins
- 4th March: Colette Olive
- 11th March: PGR Day: Tiago Carneiro da Silva and Kaj Zeller
- 25th March: Alba Curry
- 13th May: Elsa Kugelberg (Oxford) (joint session with CLSR)
Recent workshops and conferences
- June 2025: ‘Foundations of Morality Workshop’, with Samuel Dishaw (Université Catholique de Louvain), Julia Driver (University of Texas - Austin/St Andrews), Jizefien Gielen (KU Leuven), Meradjuddin Khan Oidermaa (Stockholm University), Fabienne Peter (University of Warwick), and Michael Smith (Princeton University).
Previous research seminars: 2024-25
- 9th Oct, 2024: Romy Eskens (Utrecht)
- 23rd Oct: Tom Angier (Cape Town)
- 6th Nov: Joe Bowen
- 20th Nov: Rach Cosker-Rowland
- 27th Nov (4-5pm, room tbc.): Nathan Barrett
- 4th Dec: Simone Gubler (Brown)
- 29th Jan, 2025: Bart Smith-Johnson // Sam Summerfield
- 12th Feb: Carl Fox
- 26th Feb: With CLSR, Karamvir Chadha (Durham)
- 12th March: Gerald Lang
- 26th March: Johann Frick (Berkley)
- 7th May: Pekka Väyrynen
- TBC May: Rahul Kumar (Queens)
Other events
In May 2016, we hosted the annual public Mangoletsi Lectures, by Rae Langton (Cambridge) on the theme of 'Doing and Undoing Things with Words'. We have also organised two major international conferences, ‘The Moral Significance of Intentions’ (June 2014) and ‘Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams’ (July 2009). The latter conference led to a volume of articles, Luck, Value, and Commitment: Themes from the Ethics of Bernard Williams (ed. Ulrike Heuer and Gerald Lang, Oxford University Press 2012).
In addition to the ongoing research seminar, we have also organised or supported numerous other workshops and conferences:
- New Approaches to Moral Error Theory (03/2019)
- Morality and Rationality Revisited (09/2018);
- Love Etc. (09/2017);
- Midsummer Philosophy Workshop (06/2017);
- Animals and Death (09/2016);
- Dimensions of Luck (06/2015);
- The Moral Significance of Intentions (02/2014);
- Normative Disagreement (11/2012);
- Intentions (06/2012);
- Theoretical and Practical Reasons (06/2010);
- Value Concepts (03/2010);
- Naturalism: Ethical and Metaphysical (09/2009);
- Deference and Responsibility (05/2009);
- Reasons and Values (05/2008)